Brummagem Quotes

#1. The Church must go, it is the haven of the booboisie, of boobs and bounders and all brummagem mountebanks.

John Fante

#2. In my first story, 'Mr. Mysterious & Company' ... I was asked to take out some of the humor because editors were afraid reviewers would dismiss the book as a joke. Today, humor is enjoyed and no longer regarded as literary brummagem.

Sid Fleischman

#3. The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.

Jenny Eclair

#4. I'm not the quiet sensitive little guy I was. I can't be. There's just too much after me.

Dan Fogelberg

#5. In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.

Pema Chodron

#6. The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one.

Jodi Picoult

#7. I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

Ayelet Waldman

#8. The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones.

Judith Miller

#9. People have to form their own opinion. I've said everything I can say about it. I was viciously attacked from the stage, and I have a right to answer back. I've said everything I could say. I was viciously attacked on the stage, and I have a right to answer back.

Donald Trump

#10. Perfectionism prevents action. Waiting until you have devised the perfect solution to something is merely a form of procrastination.

Staffan Noteberg

#11. Yes, but none of them can steal my ship.
None of them are smart enough to know that it was the right thing to do at the time.

Howard Tayler

#12. What makes you so arrogant to think that Christ's Atonement is for everyone else in the history of the world except you?

Carla Kelly

#13. I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

Mark Twain

#14. [Fasting is] a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions ...

Brian D. McLaren

#15. Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

Bill Dedman